Fences, Gates and Garden Houses: A Book of Designs with Measured Drawings (Dover Architecture)
Including a wealth of measured drawings and photographs, this volume depicts wood fences, gates, and little garden houses of New England. Numerous of these elegantly detailed constructions were constructed among the Revolutionary War and 1825, and numerous of them no lengthier exist. Restorationists and preservationists will locate this collection a valuable resource.
Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People
This distinctive book of thirty-6 spectacular homes and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Residing above the past two decades but also on photos that have never prior to been published. Vogue Residing: Houses, Gardens, Folks will take you to these design-makers’ private realms close to the world, captured by this kind of celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, amongst a lot of other individuals. Their dazzling photographs bring to existence interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.
Here are Madonna’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta’s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic Michael and Eva Chow’s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin’s magical houseboat on the Nile Donna Karan’s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli’s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh Julian and Olatz Schnabel’s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley’s miniature château on the Loire celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho’s revolutionary Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley’s magnificent English stately property Janet de Botton’s idyllic Provençal estate and 4 decades of Karl Lagerfeld’s endlessly surprising houses, each progressive and palatial.
Lavishly illustrated in complete color, Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, Folks is an irresistible voyage through some of the world’s most stunning and private gardens and interiors.
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